Even as Delhi Police registered 10 FIRs linked to the ongoing demonstrations, delivery partners said they were instructed by anonymous customers to hand out food and beverages directly to students protesting at Jantar Mantar.
A volunteer cleans the CJP protest site at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi as the demonstration over the alleged paper leak issue continues. (ANI Photo)
As protests over alleged paper leaks continue at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, delivery partners say anonymous supporters from India and abroad are sending food and beverages to demonstrators through online delivery platforms.
Several delivery agents told ANI they have been receiving orders with instructions to distribute the items among students and protesters at the site instead of handing them to a specific recipient.
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Pradeep Kumar Singh, a Swiggy delivery partner, said such deliveries have become common over the past few days.
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“An order comes, and then the person says, ‘Brother, distribute it right there; give it to whoever needs it.’ Yesterday, I had an order for samosas. I was told to just bring them here and distribute them. No one comes to collect them,” Singh said.
Some of the orders are also being placed from outside India, according to delivery personnel.
Mahendra Kumar, another delivery partner, said he delivered tea that had been ordered by a customer overseas.
“I’ve brought this order; it was placed from outside India. They said, ‘Go to Jantar Mantar and give it to the brothers.’ I don’t know whose it is, but they told me to give the tea to the brothers who are protesting here,” he said.
Another delivery executive, who said he was carrying orders through Zomato and Zepto, described the initiative as “student service.”
“The sender is anonymous. They said, ‘Just distribute it.’ I don’t know who ordered it, but I was just told to go there and give it. It’s ‘student service,’ it’s for the students. I also don’t know whose it is or what’s in it,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Police have registered 10 FIRs in connection with the protests organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) in the national capital.
Police officials said the cases were registered across multiple police station jurisdictions in the New Delhi district over incidents linked to the demonstrations and law-and-order concerns.
According to officials, four FIRs were registered at Parliament Street police station, three at Connaught Place police station, and one each at Mandir Marg, Barakhamba Road and Kartavya Path police stations.
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